Uncovering mental processes with factorial experiments
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Uncovering mental processes with factorial experiments
zbMATH Open document ID: 0563.92020
DOI: 10.1016/0022-2496(84)90007-5
author: James T. Townsend
published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology
publication date: 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Two basic models for reaction time are analyzed. Under the first model's assumptions the reaction time is a sum of three random variables, and three theorems about the mean reaction time are presented. The second model assumes that the first two terms in the sum are replaced by the maximum of them. Another three theorems are given about the mean reaction time for this second model. The theorems are presented without proofs and they can be found in the author and \textit{F. G. Ashby}, The stochastic modelling of elementary psychological processes. Cambridge University Press (1983). The main part of the paper is devoted to the extensive critique of experimental strategy and statistical evaluation of reaction time data.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91E99
zbMATH DE Number: 3898668
zbMATH Keywords: mental processes
zbMATH Keywords: factorial experiments
zbMATH Keywords: mean reaction time
reviewed by: Petr Lansky
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0022-2496(84)90007-5
OpenAlex ID: W1972379414
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